MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74)

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	99.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	33.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A74
Motherboard	MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170406
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Dec 13 '20 at 18:34
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 82.2 1-Core 122 2-Core 228 81% 144 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 645 66% 533 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% Gigabyte(1458 3FDA) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 460.79 Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.8% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 111 Parallax 101 98% 110 fps	MRender 173 Gravity 119 Splatting 103 104% 131 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX500 240GB-$27 142,801 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 282 83 66 54 67 95 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	33.5% Below average	Read 494 Write 404 Mixed 11.9 SusWrite 108 56% 254 MB/s	4K Read 15.6 4K Write 5.1 4K Mixed 0.4 27% 7.03 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 92%
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 243GB free Firmware: S3Z40107 SusWrite @10s intervals: 134 417 80 70 106 70 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	57.5% Above average	Read 490 Write 417 Mixed 370 SusWrite 146 79% 356 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 29 4K Mixed 14 63% 20.9 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 317 DQ Mixed 1 65% 152 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 102%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$37 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 776GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 190 198 196 197 196 196 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 95.8 Mixed 83.2 SusWrite 196 103% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.7 141% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBR2 859B BLS8G4D240FSBK.8FBD 16GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 21.7 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 21.8 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 76.5 52% 76.5 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 76%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 25%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74)

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $70Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	650x
Core i5-7500Intel $88Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	416x
Pentium G4560Intel $31Bench 57%, 70,054 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	562x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	275x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	202x

SSD
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	73x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	58x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	52x
HyperX 2400 C15 1x8GBKingstonBench 40%, 46,352 samples	42x
HyperX 2133 C14 1x8GBKingstonBench 37%, 30,824 samples	42x

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